Rain, sun, sleet or shine, the St. Paul DFL will host precinct caucuses citywide at 2:30 p.m. Sunday to select delegates to the ward conventions, where candidates for city council will be endorsed.

Wards 2, 3 and 4 will host their ward conventions at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the same location. All seven city council seats will be on the November ballot, as will four seats on the St. Paul school board.

Frederick Melo was once sued by a reader for $2 million but kept on writing. He came to the Pioneer Press in 2005 and brings a testy East Coast attitude to St. Paul beat reporting. He spent nearly six years covering crime in the Dakota County courts before switching focus to the St. Paul mayor's office, city council, and all things neighborhood-related, from the city's churches to its parks and light rail. A resident of Hamline-Midway, he is married to a Frogtown woman. He Tweets with manic intensity at @FrederickMelo.

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